Senior Firewall Engineer

Description:

Senior Firewall Engineer

How does the role impact the organization? The Senior Firewall Engineer is responsible for managing, designing and improving RJ’s enterprise network firewall infrastructure. He or she will assist network architects with design and implementation of firewall network technologies. This role is responsible for senior level firewall engineering implementation and providing technical principles guidance to peer engineers, proactively taking technology project delivery from 0 to 100% with little to no supervision. General duties include leading buildout of firewall focused security solutions and driving innovation for implementation of new modern security technologies in the enterprise network. Partners with management and peer engineers to drive infrastructure modernization projects to completion and provides Tier3 technical support using extensive expertise to take on work assignments the team is engaged in. Strong people skills and the ability to balance/prioritise between multiple tasks and projects are essential. This position does involve both routing and switching as well as network firewall implementation projects for both on-prem and cloud infrastructure.

What will your role be responsible for? Design, improve and innovate:
 

• Primary focus is to implement new firewall technologies or changes to existing firewall technologies as identified by enterprise direction.
• Researches and recommends innovative technologies and approaches for enterprise infrastructure management, upgrades, or improvements.
• Utilise and integrate network components such as switches, routers, firewalls, wireless AP/Controllers, SDN fabric components, load balancers, NAC servers and cloud infrastructure network elements.
• Proactively identify and implement network improvements to assure the performance, resiliency and redundancy of the network.
• Utilise blueprints to engineer solutions and adhere to enterprise standards (engineering focused, architecture supported).
• Take disaster recovery and business continuity plan aspects into consideration for any new technology implementation or change.

Monitor, document and offer proactive support:
 

• Provides ad-hoc support for incidents requiring Tier 3 level resources (engineering/architecture) and knowledge.
• Use Microsoft Visio to produce and maintain documentation with regards to implementation of new systems or system changes
• Participate in 24x7 on call rotation for SME Tier 3 support requirements as needed.
• Maintains service level agreements of departmental metrics, key performance indicators and adhering to strict project timelines.
• Maintain/Improve security posture, promptly addressing issues, vulnerabilities and security requirements according to regulatory guidelines (PCIDSS, PII, CIS, NIST)

Collaborate and coach:
 

• Work collaboratively across a variety of business units to implement new technologies.
• Coordinate and take lead of assigned projects in all technical and communication aspects.
• Collaborate with peer engineers towards achieving common goals in assigned projects.
• Coach peer engineers and effectively perform knowledge transfer/cross training activities.

What can you expect from us? Our most important investment is in people. Upon eligibility, Raymond James Ltd offers flexible workstyles, a competitive compensation and benefits package. Our benefits range from Health Benefits, RRSP Matching Program, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, Volunteer Days, Discretionary Bonuses, Tuition Reimbursement and many more! We also support internal promotion and community involvement.

What do we expect from you? Required:
 

• 5-7 years of experience with designing, implementing and maintaining Palo Alto Centrally managed firewall platforms
  • Panorama policy management (NGFW PanOS)
    • Threat Prevention
    • UserID
    • Global Protect (Client VPN, LSVPN)
    • HA setup
  • Prisma Access (preferred – Cortex, DataLake, CloudIdentityEngine)
  • Deployment from 0 to 100% of enterprise firewall clusters
• 5-7 years of experience in network design, implementation and documentation of medium-large scale enterprise networks (10,000+ users)